Biology:Matapa aria

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Common redeye
Common Redeye - Matapa aria(Moore,1866).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Matapa
Species:
M. aria
Binomial name
Matapa aria
(Moore, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
  • Ismene aria Moore, [1866]
  • Hesperia neglecta Mabille, 1876

Matapa aria, the common redeye,[2] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India and Southeast Asia.[2][3][4]

Description

Male and female chocolate brown.

Male. Upperside, pale brown; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown.

Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown.[5]

The larvae feed on Bambusa striata, Ochlandra travancorica and Ochlandra scriptoria.[6]

References

  1. Matapa at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. 2.0 2.1 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 54. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260. 
  3. W. H., Evans (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. pp. 171–172. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187283#page/185/mode/1up. 
  4. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co.. pp. 330. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/354/mode/1up. 
  5. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: E. Y., Watson (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae : being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. pp. 24. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64080#page/38/mode/1up. 
  6. Kalesh, S & S K Prakash (2007). "Additions of the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 104 (2): 235–238. 

Wikidata ☰ Q6786092 entry